List of FIFA Ballon d’Or Award Winners (Since 1956 to 2015)

FIFA Ballon d’Or is the highest level achievement for a footballer which provide by a jury board organized by FIFA in every year. A Ballon d’Or Award winner also mentioned as the best soccer player of the year. This procedure of Ballon d’Or award started from the year 1956 where any European nation footballer took chance to win this award. Actually, it was limited on Europe on that time and in that case a Ballon d’Or winner would be call the best player of the year from Europe. But from the year 1995, the organizer committee elected to give this award to any footballer as well those are playing in European clubs. From the year 2009, it became more big and FIFA directly involve and took the decision to give this award to the best footballer around the world. Though most of the superstar players play in Spanish, German, English, Italian & Portuguese clubs and ultimately all award goes to European club playing footballers.

Jury Board & selection procedure:

170 national team captain, coach & a special journalist can able to provide vote for the Ballon d’Or award nominees and FIFA make a shortlist of best 3 footballer and finally around 500 people (170 National team captain, 170 National team coach & 170 special journalist from 170 nation) choice help FIFA to pick the “Best footballer of the year”.

In the year 2015, Argentine Barcelona striker Lionel Messi won the award of FIFA Ballon d’Or which is the 5th achievement of him and still now the highest amount of Ballon d’Or winner.

Now take a look into the list of all year Ballon d’Or award winner from the year 1956 to 2015.

FIFA BALLON D’OR WINNERS (1956 – 2015)

Year

Player

Club

Nationality

2015

Lionel Messi

FC Barcelona

Argentina

2014

Cristiano Ronaldo

Real Madrid

Portugal

2013

Cristiano Ronaldo

Real Madrid

Portugal

2012

Lionel Messi

FC Barceona

Argentina

2011

Lionel Messi

FC Barcelona

Argentina

2010

Lionel Messi

FC Barcelona

Argentina

2009

Lionel Messi

FC Barcelona

Argentina

2008

Cristiano Ronaldo

Manchester United

Portugal

2007

Kaka

AC Milan

Brazil

2006

Fabio Cannvaro

Juventus/Real Madrid

Italy

2005

Ronaldinho

FC Barcelona

Brazil

2004

Andriy Shevchenko

AC Milan

Ukraine

2003

Pavel Nedved

AC Milan

Juventus

2002

Ronaldo

Real Madrid

Brazil

2001

Michael Owen

FC Liverpool

England

2000

Luis Figo

Real Madrid

Portugal

1999

Rivaldo

FC Barcelona

Brazil

1998

Zinedine Zidane

Juventus

France

1997

Ronaldo

Inter Milan

Brazil

1996

Matthias Sammer

Borussia Dortmund

Germany

1995

George Weah

AC Milan

Liberia

1994

Hristo Stoichkov

FC Barcelona

Bulgaria

1993

Roberto Baggio

Juventus

Italy

1992

Marco Van Basten

AC Milan

Netherlands

1991

Jean Pierre Papin

Marseille

France

1990

Lothar Matthaus

Inter Milan

Germany

1989

Marco Van Basten

AC Milan

Netherlands

1988

Marco Van Basten

AC Milan

Netherlands

1987

Ruud Gullit

AC Milan

Netherlands

1986

Igor Belanov

Soviet Union

Dynamo Kyiv

1985

Michel Platini

Juventus

France

1984

Michel Platini

Juventus

France

1983

Michel Platini

Juventus

France

1982

Paolo Rossi

Juventus

Italy

1981

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Bayern Munich

Germany

1980

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Bayern Munich

Germany

1979

Kevin Keegan

Hamburg

England

1978

Kevin Keegan

Hamburg

England

1977

Allan Simonsen

Borussia Monchengladbach

Denmark

1976

Franz Beckenbauer

Bayern Munich

Germany

1975

Oleg Blokhin

Soviet Union

Dynamo Kyiv

1974

Johan Cruyff

FC Barcelona

Netherlands

1973

Johan Cruyff

FC Barcelona

Netherlands

1972

Franz Beckenbauer

Bayern Munich

Germany

1971

Johan Cruyff

FC Barcelona

Netherlands

1970

Gerd Muller

Bayer Munich

Germany

1969

Gianni Rivera

AC Milan

Italy

1968

George Best

Manchester United

Northern Ireland

1967

Florian Albert

Ferencv Rosi TC

Hungary

1966

Bobby Chalton

Manchester United

England

1965

Eusebio

Benfica

Portugal

1964

Denis Law

Manchester United

Scotland

1963

Lev Yashin

Soviet Union

Dynamo Moscow

1962

Josef Masopust

Dukla Prague

Czechoslovakia

1961

Omar Sivori

Juventus

Italy

1960

Luis Suarez

FC Barcelona

Spain

1959

Alfredo Di Stefano

Real Madrid

Spain

1958

Raymond Kopa

Real Madrid

France

1957

Alfredo Di Stefano

Real Madrid

Spain

1956

Stanley Matthews

Blackpool

England

Actually, this award FIFA Ballon d’Or is the dream of a footballer. Once upon a time when Lionel Messi were a child and played well in Under 13 club of Barcelona, media people asked him that what is his aim in life where he was simply answered that he wants to win Ballon d’Or. This is mention that how much important award for footballer, Ballon d’Or is and this honor also encouraged every players around the world.